UNITED NATIONS: Describing India as a "valued supporter" of South-South cooperation, UN chief Antonio Guterres has praised the India-UN Development Partnership Fund for "championing greater prosperity" for all through its myriad projects benefitting the least developed,...
The result of the recent Indian elections, which gave Narendra Modi’s
Hindu Supremacist Party a second five-year term, confirms the basic
argument regarding the nature of fascism. There is a fundamental
difference between the 2014 elections that brought Modi...
K.M. Seethi
Is the world economy poised to enter the phase of what the Dutch trend-watcher Adjiedj Bakas called ‘Slowbalisation’? The trend forecasts say that the world will soon witness another spell of ‘financial crisis’ with Donald Trump unleashing a...
Zoya Hasan
Its defeat now is far more consequential than it was in 2014; and it does not have the luxury of time
When the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by Narendra Modi stormed to power in 2014,...
Neera Chandhoke
Voters want someone who will protect them from insecurities flowing from the new economy and globalisation
A great deal has been already said and written on the spectacular victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),...
Prabhat Patnaik argues that rolling back of fascification of our society requires much more than the defeat of the Hindutva forces in the coming elections; it requires above all a programme that provides relief to...
Prabhat Patnaik argues that the NYAY scheme of the Congress is a form of "charity" rather than establishing an economic right to decent living conditions. But in the current neo-liberal regime, any transfers to the poor are welcome, as...
G Ram Mohan
The attack of Fall Armyworm on maize crop in Andhra Pradesh has not just affected farmers, but also cattle. The state, which produces the most maize in the country, is unable to generate enough fodder after...
MAINSTREAM bourgeois economics which is what occupies a hegemonic position in the academic world today is often criticized for being “unreal”, for proceeding on the basis of assumptions that obviously do not correspond to reality....
There is a dominant phenomenon apparent in the popular and political discourses on Islam and Muslims. This phenomenon is the tendency to see Muslims as a generic category, as rigid cultural actors sans what Islam means to them, and...
